ZDNet January 7, 2019
Jo Best

Amazon has been making a series of moves into the healthcare space. Put them together and you have the outline of a plan for a radical shakeup of the industry.

Over the last couple of years, Amazon appears to have been laying the foundations for a more significant healthcare push.

Amazon is hardly the first tech titan to turn its attention to the health space: Google has DeepMind and Verily; the Apple Watch can now offer you an ECG, while IBM is pushing Watsonand numerous strands of healthcare industry software. Even Facebook has in the past dipped its toe in the market with a data-sharing project.

The reasons for Amazon’s interest in the healthcare market are likely to be...

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